Inspired by.....

 Hi everyone, I am actually inspired by two people today!

The first is my dear friend Elizabeth of The Altered Book Lover blog.

Every year Elizabeth celebrates her Birthday by sharing it with Earth Day - hence it is her bEARTHday on 22nd April.(It also happens to be the day before my hubby's)

To take her to Earth Day she features a different recycling project every day in April up to the 22nd. So far she has used teabags, old pattern paper, plastic cups,old cards and a multitude of other items that most folk would regard as rubbish!   

Today she is showing something I made.

I made this journal cover using a recycling technique that features a lot in my Instagram friend Kelly's (@kellyjwg) feed. 

She works magic using old packaging for die cutting - see her posts here.

I started with some corrugated card, a biscuit box, some instant coffee packaging and some geometric style dies by Aall and Create and some Tim Holtz Tattered flowers

I also cut some of the biscuit box and used a TH letter strip die too to cut out the 'Journal' word from a scrap of old book paper.

There was enough gold on the coffee packets to cut out some heart strips (also AAll and Create)

I am quite pleased with my transformation from this boring and rather dirty old cover.

I am joining in with Eileen's chosen theme 'Inspired By' at  Art Journal Journey where Erika and I are co - hosting this month.

I hope you will follow the links in my post to see the wonderful art that has been created.

Thanks for looking, Chris